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Grammar : Noun

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Définition of smatterer

Origin :
  • "one who has but slight or superficial knowledge," 1510s, agent noun from smatter (v.).
  • noun amateur
Example sentences :
  • Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
  • Extract from : « Lewis Rand » by Mary Johnston
  • At this explanation she shook her head, and observed that no smatterer could read as I had done.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Roderick Random » by Tobias Smollett
  • Like Mr. Stevenson's smatterer, who was asked, "What would be the result of putting a pound of potassium in a pot of porter?"
  • Extract from : « Adventures in Criticism » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  • Any mere sciolist, any empiric, any smatterer of the new medical course—and where would Frank Gilham's arm be now?
  • Extract from : « Perlycross » by R. D. Blackmore
  • He was a smatterer of that most dangerous kind, who feel certain they have arrived at truth.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 » by Various
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